Members
of All Assam Muslim Yuba Parishad (S ) protest against the mob lynching
of a rape accused in Dimapur, Nagaland on March 07, 2015. Photo: PTIUnion
Home Ministry has issued an advisory to Karnataka, Maharashtra and
Haryana governments about possible attacks on the people from Northeast
states living there as a backlash of Dimapur lynching incident.

In the advisory, MHA has asked these states to be fully alert and ensure security of northeast people.
The
communication has been sent by the Home Ministry after it found that a
misinformation campaign about the Dimapur incident was going on in
social media.

"We
suspect that the social media is being used by some anti-social
elements to create tension and instigate people to attack people of
northeast origin in the three cities," a Home Ministry official said
justifying the issuing of the advisory.

The
Centre also told the states to deploy adequate security forces in
places where sizeable number of northeast people live and roam around in
these cities.

The activities in social media have been
witnessed after Syed Sarif Khan, who was accused of raping a girl, was
lynched by a mob after being dragged out from a jail in Dimapur.

The
mob stripped Khan naked, beat him up, pelted him with stones and
dragged him towards the centre of Dimapur town, seven kilometres away
from the jail. He died from his injuries on the way after which the mob
displayed his body from a clock tower.

Thousands of
northeast origin people living in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune and other
cities had fled their place of work and study in August 2012 after
rumours of possible attacks on them in the wake of clashes between Bodo
tribals and immigrant Muslims in Assam that year.